postmedieval

our 2025 issues are free to access for the next month—head over to our website to explore 47 brilliant pieces! in the coming days, we'll be spotlighting key articles, ideas, and insights from across the issues. stay tuned!! linktr.ee/postmedieval

the issue is temporarily #openaccess, read it here: link.springer.com/journal/41280/…

guest editors Jennifer Jahner and Jessica Rosenberg bring together 31 contributors to reflect on these themes across 22 dynamic pieces—research articles, interviews between academics and practitioners, and ‘skill-shares,’ short works of practical knowledge

technique—technology—technê ‘Technique: Alternate histories of expertise and experiment’—our 2025 double special issue—explores modes of making and questions of functionality, ornamentation, craft, artificiality, skill

the issue is #openaccess for the next two weeks—read it here: link.springer.com/journal/41280/…

how does medieval literature conceptualize moral and political systems? how do modern writers, printers, and heritage projects engage with the past? our spring 2025 issue explores these and other questions across persian, byzantine, old, middle, and modern english literature

and, if @LACMA is closer to you, make sure you check out Sandra S. Williams' article on the spanish wooden ceilings there: rdcu.be/fjmst

if you cannot visit the ceiling in person, explore it and related spanish wooden ceilings in the /postmedieval/ essay cluster guest-edited by Anna McSweeney and Mariam Rosser-Owen: link.springer.com/journal/41280/…

for #internationalmuseumday, we are celebrating once again the Crafting Medieval Spain project—a remarkable collaboration between academics and museum professionals that enabled the close study of the torrijo ceiling at @vam_east storehouse

I'm pleased to share that my review essay, 'Whiteness made visible: Recent Work in Premodern Critical Race Studies', has now been published in @postmedieval 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.105…

a BIG THANK YOU to the members of our editorial board who volunteered to be mentors, to the applicants who shared their work with us, and to everyone who circulated the cfp stay tuned for updates about the mentees' work and for the next iterations of the scheme!!

it was so great to see our mentees and mentors together—we are really excited to work with five wonderful scholars who are publishing in English for the first time and to support them as they develop their articles for publication

today we held an orientation meeting for /postmedieval/'s mentorship programme for EFL scholars!

in the issue you can also read five research articles and a dialogue on topics ranging from medievalism and eugenics, premodern trans* lives, caves, kisses and oral metaphors, as well as japanese calligraphy and disorder

the ceiling featured on the cover can now be seen at @vam_east; for their recent opening we made this issue of /postmedieval/ once again free to access. go to the link in our bio to read it!!

while we are putting the finishing touches on our first issue of 2025, why don't you have another look at our 2024 winter issue?

anyone who has worked with Shazia won’t find it hard to see why she received these prizes and will agree that they are richly deserved. we are beyond happy to see that her brilliant work for the journal has been recognized by our community! 🎉🥳

thrilled to announce that our former co-editor-in-chief Shazia Jagot won two awards from Springer Nature for her editorial work for /postmedieval/: an Editorial Contribution Award for her rigour in handling submissions and an Author Service Award for her commitment to our authors

Opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position as part of the ECOMEDS project at King's College London working with Arabic and Hebrew sources. The deadline for applications is 1 June 2025. See further details here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY931/pos…